دانلود رمان انگلیسی “زندگی بعدی”

Maria Chan shifted in her hospital bed. The pain was easing now, thanks to the drug infusion procedure that she was undergoing periodically. The spiking agony had abated from a persistent clamor in her mind all the way down to a muted throb. Thanks to the wonders of medical technology, it would now stay this way for a couple of weeks. When it got worse, she’d be back again for a repeat. This was her third cycle so far. All part of the costly, time-consuming, and ultimately ineffective fight against the progression of the disease. This was part of the palliative care stage of the process. Unfortunately, for her type and stage of cancer, there were no solutions, no miracle cures, and no further treatments were possible. She guessed that she was lucky to be able to spend some time at home in between her procedures, although on each visit to the hospital, she was aware that she was a little frailer than the last time. She wondered if she’d live to see summer. Winter was refusing to relinquish its grip on Boston, with cold snap after cold snap delaying the onset of spring. Letting out a sigh, she tried her best to go to sleep, thinking of what tomorrow would bring. She’d see her niece, Alex. Alex was going to be collecting her from the hospital and taking her home – her neighbor had kindly brought her here earlier today. Alex was a ray of sunshine, and Maria was looking forward to hearing more about her job, working as a private investigator together with an ex-cop friend of hers called Meg Thorne.